Elliotson recorded some striking examples of induced hallucinations and delusions, and in an article in the Journal in 1866, I endeavoured to show how suggestive similar instances which I then reported are in relation to certain forms of insanity, and also in relation to sudden recovery from mental disease; the conclusion being forced upon us that there may be cases in which no change takes place in the brain which the ablest microscopist is likely to detect, but a dynamic change-one more or less temporary in the relative functional power of different cerebral centres, involving loss or excess of inhibition.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke
Then within that form a patch of cells arise which the microscopist recognizes as the forerunners of the male or the female reproductive cells.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
But the microscopist was never popular, and could never hope to be.
"My Contemporaries In Fiction"
David Christie Murray